One fine day in the middle of the night, J Andrew Evans wrote:
>Colen McAlister wrote:
>
>> One fine day in the middle of the night, Elias Tiliakos wrote:
>>
>> >HAVE YOU NO CONCEPTION OF METER????????
>>
>> AFAIK, the meter is defined by the speed of light, and is approximately
>> 100 cm long. However, this may be what you meant. What did you mean? :P
>>
>
>The metre used to be defined by the length of a metal pole held at a
>particular temperature and pressure etc in an Institute in France. They
>might have changed it but no one told me.
Apparently, the "metal pole", "lump of rock", etc. style of measurements
are going out of fashion, as they gradually distort and change mass over
the years.
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Received on Tue Oct 06 1998 - 20:14:27 UTC